On a local talk show, Ted Bundy’s mother speaks to the family of one of his victims.

Who was Ashraf Marwan working for when he fell to his death from the balcony of a London flat?

Edward Luttwak is a military strategist, a classical scholar, a cattle rancher, and an adviser to presidents, prime ministers, and the Dalai Lama.

A sociologist’s controversial first book and the debate over who gets to speak for whom.

Government agencies have been trying to protect children for nearly 200 years. They are still failing.

“I’ll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. I mean really, no fear!”

How Dennis from Head of the Class grew up to be the Aaron Sorkin of tween television.

How Lalit Modi built a billion-dollar cricket empire—only to be exiled from his sport and homeland.

“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.”

The birth of the Beastie Boys—an oral history on the 25th anniversary of Licensed to Ill.

On the dying city of Port Arthur, Texas, and one man’s fight to save it.

This is what I learned: he was working at this, too. Death didn’t happen to Steve, he achieved it.

A group of journalists and researchers wade into ugly corners of the Internet to expose racists, creeps, and hypocrites. Have they gone too far?

The man behind the craze for fermented alcoholic tea likes to tell the story of his own conception.

An eyewitness tells us what it was like to be there.

A drag pageant pioneer dropped out of the public eye after the 1960s. What happened to her?

The former Beastie Boy, 48, tries to figure out what’s next.

How Ross Ulbricht went from idealistic used-book seller to murderous drug kingpin.

The multimillionaire David Gundlach had trouble, all his life, reading social cues. For reasons no one quite understands, he left most of his fortune to Elkhart, Indiana.

Investigating the death of Rikers Island women’s jail inmate Jackie Caquias, and other abuses of women prisoners’ access to medical care.

Prosecutors have spun creative theories to explain away scientific evidence when DNA tests haven’t fit their version of events.

On February 10, 1982, Lucy Dixon’s daughter was raped. Against all odds, she and her family brought the man to justice.

An industry responds to the recession by rebranding the carrot as anything but vegetable.

Sam Childers, a Pennsylvania-based evangelical preacher, biker, and former drug addict, has devoted his life to catching crazed African warlord Joseph Kony.

From Tetris to Angry Birds, an examination of “stupid games.”